2. To create our documentary we used a huge variety of different media technologies to help
make it look as professional as we could. Software played a big part in putting everything
together and helping us to plan and keep track of where we were up to. We used web
browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to get our secondary research. We
used Mozilla Firefox plug-ins to download and transfer the videos from the internet.
Microsoft Word was also used mostly for the planning and research stages to record and
keep track of what we were using. The snipping tool was also used to help get screenshots
and pictures easily and successfully.
The main software we used was adobe premiere for all of the video and sound editing, it was a
very easy to work and pick up and the end was result was editing done to a high standard. It
allowed us to closely select what footage we wanted and then play around with it until we
got what we wanted. It also gave us the opportunity to use different shot transitions to
make it flow much more naturally and look more aesthetically pleasing. Again this software
allowed us to make our documentary look much more professional and better for the
audience to watch. Photoshop was also used a lot within our project, take the poster for
example after we had taken our individual pictures for it we photo shopped it all together
and used various special effects to get the desired effect. For example we changed the
saturation , hue and colours on each to make them look much more vibrant.

3. Hardware played a key role in our media production as without it we wouldn’t have been able
to capture the footage. The main camera we used was a Sony HXR-2000E camera as it was
high definition and recorded footage to a professional level, it also features a solid state
built in hard drive which makes it more durable and harder to damage. We also used a
smaller Cannon camera for some of the more adventurous filming, due to its smaller size it
was much easier to manoeuvre and travel with but didn't sacrifice any noticeable quality so
worked well. Clip microphones were used for the interviews and a boom microphone was
used for some of the more active filming. We then transferred the footage using USB cable
and SD card to the Dell XPR with 16GB RAM and i7 processor.
The computer handled the tasks very well and editing was easily done without interruptions.
The cameras used gave us a very professional look to our documentary with the footage
being very clear and vibrant we were able to get the desired shots with great ease and
helped to portray our argument how we wanted it. The clip microphones that we used were
a necessity for us, without them the sound quality would have been amateur but with them
the sound was very clear and crisp giving us a much more professional feel and higher
standard to our documentary.

4. Finally we used some web based resources to gather information and transfer data, for
example we used Sound Cloud to transfer our radio advertisements onto blogger, Also Slide
Share has been used to upload this PowerPoint. YouTube played a key role in our
documentary as we got our archive footage from there and also used it to upload our
documentary for feedback purposes it was a very useful website as the archive footage was
free and easy to download and most of it was in high definition. The website
Topdocumentaries.org was also used in the early stages to watch and research other
documentaries this consists of a list of hundreds of documentaries free to watch. The main
purpose of this was to watch several other documentaries and get a good feel of how they
were styled and created so ours could be as realistic as possible.
Sound Cloud and Slide Share were incredibly helpful to our documentary as it allowed us to
transfer the data and sound clips needed very easily onto our blog from the hardware.
Topdocumentaries.org also provided us with key information and a good insight into how
documentaries were made and stayed, as a result we could use this knowledge to make
ours as similar as possible.